The state-based workers’ compensation system has evolved and survived for 100 years but it could face tough challenges in the coming years as the country struggles to dig itself out of the deep recession. The recession has caused an “unprecedented …
Montana State Fund says its workers’ compensation insurance policyholders will be getting a $6 million dividend. The board of directors authorized the refunds for January that will be sent to about 21,000 policyholders with good safety standards. Overall, the agency …
The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) awarded 13 businesses safety intervention grants totaling more than $273,000 during October to make Ohio workplaces safer, the agency announced. BWC designed the Safety Intervention Grant Program to assist Ohio employers in reducing …
Four Louisiana physicians wrote hundreds of bogus prescriptions that powered multimillion-dollar health-care frauds in the Baton Rouge area, according to evidence amassed by the nearly two-year-old local Medicare Fraud Strike Force. Yet all four physicians remain licensed to practice medicine, …
General contractors in Kentucky who purchase their workers’ compensation insurance through an industry-run risk pool are slated to see millions in policyholder dividends. The Kentucky Associated General Contractors Self-Insurance Fund announced they have been given the go ahead from the …
A Florida workers’ compensation insurer has reached a deal with a California company to underwrite its workers’ compensation policies through its Florida agency-owned captive program. Zurich Financial Services Group recently announced that through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Zurich American Insurance Co., …
The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) has introduced a new rating plan that encourages employers to maintain safe workplaces and to work with injured workers to speed their return to work. The new rating plan, “Destination: Excellence,” aims to …
California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund on Friday named Len Welsh head of workplace safety. Welsh is charged with directing State Fund’s strategies to advance occupational safety and health in California’s workplaces. He will focus on developing methods for improving safety …
The price for non-hospital services in Indiana’s workers’ compensation system in 2010 was the third highest of the 25 states in a study conducted by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). The price for non-hospital services was more than 50 …
In 2010, Wisconsin’s workers’ compensation system was the costliest for non-hospital services in a study of 25 study states. Prices in Wisconsin for non-hospital services were more than twice that of the 25-state median, and nearly 50 percent higher than …
